Pigeons on the Grass, Alas: Dan Byers
"I curate for curious people. I curate for people who love some other field or subject the same way I love art. I curate for those people who need to be won over, but are willing."
What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
"I curate for curious people. I curate for people who love some other field or subject the same way I love art. I curate for those people who need to be won over, but are willing."
Isaac, a 2011 Pew Fellow in dance and choreography, peppered the walls of the Center with blank pages for writing and sharing ideas, in an evolving project called "The Notebook."
The second article in the American Impresario series features Harrington, founder and artistic director of the Kronos Quartet. Through almost four decades of work, Harrington has had a major impact on contemporary music.
"This has remained a core part of my curatorial agenda: Giving voice and space to marginalized points of view."
The premiere *American Impresario* article comes from one of the nation's most adventurous radio producers, WNYC's John Schaefer, host of *Soundcheck*, *New Sounds*, and the *New Sounds Live* concert series.
In 2011, playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith spoke at a Center-hosted event about the evolution of her one-woman show.
While Jens Hoffmann was in Philadelphia to lecture at the Center in 2011, he made a few "studio" visits with local dance companies and described the experience to us.
In 2011, the Center convened a round-table discussion with MoMA's Pablo Helguera and the New Museum's Eungie Joo to discuss the evolving state of museum education.
Writer and arts specialist Suzanne Carbonneau conducted a public discussion with Danny Yung, artistic director of Zuni Icosahedron from Hong Kong, on September 18, 2010.
In 2010, the Center hosted Václav Havel, the late renowned playwright and former President of the Czech Republic, for an interview at The Wilma Theater, prior to the American premiere of *Leaving*, his first play in 20 years.